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Chicago examiner Chicago june i 1912 16 pages saturday saturday unknown secretly unknown navy drive u.s unknown pacific , i : " big battleships beside ||| bch strongest in u s any other navy would i worse than useless means of 20,000 bo additional loan to bize control of the pacific wore canal is finished shisgton may 31 for the ex h purpose of increasing her navy to power that she will be ko drive the united states out of the beast before this country lg able to kl advantage of the panama canal aas just floated a secret loan of 800 * hvast sum is not included in the hooo appropriated by the japanese knent for a continuous programme of construction it is to be used in ad k to that appropriation for the con btion of dreadnoughts not mentioned in hprogramme but through which japan 3 to obtain preponderant power in the beast in addition japan is borrow krery dollar that she can induce money hfera to advance with the object of hur brng alonz the vessels not in the stocks vleyer has this information â– all this information obtained by the kttdnance department of the united tates navy is now in possession of secre ry meyer â– tt is the purpose of japan to obtain dom kation of the pacific by 1915 with thli r>ject in view she is confining her pro ected ships to the super-dreadnought â– uois four of these ships ar aow in the water three are on the way and a number of others are projected of the seven super-dreadnoughts now practically i ready tot service four are of the armored type with all the power of a and a peed of twenty knots entire united states navt not one the aggressive force nnd bipeed of this type of fighting craft bbf founfl k.vlargest would be useless belief wjas expressed today that wf face o ttls type of battles hi r the jsder typos of which the united states but and all other navies are almost ex hctastvely composed would be not only use lless but in the way during any battle of htlie future i according tr the official bulletin issued bmt the navy department the united states i bow posses six dreadnaugbts but will be â– speedily outdistajÂ»<,e(i by the new naval bjirogramroe projected by japan i the tremendous power and speed of the new type ship now being completed by â– japan as compared with the battleship â– 9%xas the last work in american con k*trÂ«etion was the subject of significant hmsemroent to-day by seoietary meyer the h'p which with or without intent launched nn the same lav as the as is of 500 tons greater displacement knots higher speed and carrying kuns of the formidable 14-inch type she would be able to choose her position and destroy the texas at her leisure plans to end open door policy btt:e underlying object et japan in con these ships is as well known to hsecietary knoz as to secretary meyer it its to end america's pet policy which alms to maintain the integrity of china and the open door in the far east with the completion of japan's present wgrame of naval construction which in lves the expenditure of 95,000,000 this d will be accomplished even the au orizatiou of two battleships at the pres t session of congress will not turn the je the only recourse is the programme r which admiral dewey pleaded so ear istlyâ€”the construction of four battleships year such a program-me was prepared by ad lral dewey and would have been sent to e present session had the navy depart ment not stood in fear of the democratic house girl shooters sue stokes l ask 100,000 damages on charge of malicious prosecution new york may 81 lillian graham i and ethel conrad the two young woin^n i who on the evening of jnne 7 shot and i wounded w b d stokes proprietor of i the hotel ansonla in their apartment to 1 day filed a suit for 100,000 damages magainst the millionaire alleging â– maliciously prosecuted and s*^s hfck klf against them at their trial jj^h hewed the girls of attempting fl nim out of 25,000 ' he deo^bj to give up one cent and t^h bmean misses graham and ct^bh iÃŸuilted . i i*fc^m a'wd^m&iw^b gark defeats wilson 3 to lin rhode island now has 404 delegates new jersey profesaor has only 235 instructed for him and harmon 50 providence r 1 may 31 â€” returns in the demo cratic presidential prefer ence primary had been re ceived from a little more than a third of the state v at 11 o'clock to-night an hour after the polls closed at that time champ clark was leading governor woodrow wi!son 3 to 1 returns at hand from twenty-eight of the seventy-six election districts in the state they gave clark 984 wilson 321 and harmon 59 the primary was held under the direction of the democratic state committee in the absence of a state primary law it being agreed that the state's ten dele gates to the national convention should abide by the wishes ex pressed by the preferential voting this makes 404 instructed dele gates for clark not counting any from pennsylvania as against 235 for wilson which includes all the 76 from pennsylvania 84 for underwood 50 for harmon 30 for marshall 14 for baldwin and 10 for burke Chicago may be hit by strike of waiters those in new york time walkouts for national conventions here and in baltimore new york may 33.^threats ly the striking hotel waiters here to cuke the strike country wide portend peritouis tiaea for delegates and visitors to the repub lican national convention in Chicago and for the democrats who attend the national convention in baltimore the strike if extended will be timed for both cities when they will feel it most because of the thousands crowded into them for the two great gatherings the nearest approach to disorder occurred about 8 o'clock to-night when 400 strikers and sympathisers gathered in front of the hotel belmont and marched our abreast np fifth avenue when they stopped in front of delmon ico'i and with crie of scab and come out tried to get employes to join their ranks they were forced by the police to move on they created another demon stration in front of the iroquois hotel and again in front of the algonquin but both times were forced to proceed then they went to the massmeeting in the new am sterdam opera house besides the hotels already under the strikers ban the following were deserted to-day the number stated leaving each the total number on strike is almost 4.000 besides hundred of cooks wbo went out in sympathy < jackson miller dropped by athletic association follows charge that he was re sponsible for stories of misman agement in club at a meeting of the directors of the chi cago athletic association last night the name of jackson miller was stricken from the club roster the result of a charge of conduct unbecoming a member and prejit dieial to the best interests of the club msde against miller a week ago this fharge was the direct outgrowth of stories of mismanagement for which club officers allege lie was responsible the meeting was held behind closed dooors from 8 o'cvx-k until nearly mid night president william white said this is a regrettable affair and i trust that you will be as lenient a possible the gentleman mr miller is no longer a mem ber of this club it is believed miner made no defense tt is said president white copfronted him iwith a statement showing that the club 2,800 members that the cl^^tuse is si wklrfk t nt outstandin^h bm b^^lli the net lb auto court formed to curb spefufrs municipal judges establish separate branch to regu late penalties new ordinances ur"ged aldermen recommend motors be forced to stop behind street cars v^o automobile maniacs arreimfto any charge pertaining to the violation of or dinances will hereafter be tried in a spe cial automobile court created yesterday by the judges of the municipal court . the committee on judiciary of ihe city council yesterday recommended for pes sage two amendments to the present auto mobile ordinance tending to lessen acci dents and to facilitate detection of law breakers the new court will sit in the city hall and the judges to be dete.-mined later will be chosen from among those who have displayed the strongest tendency to pun ish lawbreakers of this kind chief of police mcweeny opposed the establishment of this central court on tho ground that policemen from outlying tiis trics will be compelled to come long dis tances and spend mnch time in court there by losing 1 time for sleep and time with their families he recommended instead that the vehi cle bureau keep a card index showing the names of offenders and the number of times arrested record to determine pines nevertheless the municipal judges de termined to establish the special court which will sit at least three days per week and in which will be kept a record of of fenders penalties imposed will be to a certain extent measured by previous record the amendments to be introduced in the council are a direct result of a communi ration submitted to that body by mayor harrison in which he called attention to the large number of persons killed in auto mobile accidents last year and recom mended drastic action to stop the slaughter one provides that every automobile or motor vehicle shall stop set less than ten feet behind a street car which passengers are entering or leaving and remain station ary until tue car starts the other forbids any apparatus for operating the tall light of an automobile from the inside of the machine this latter amendment is intended to prevent the speeder who has struck a man or womanr from extinguishing his tall light as he speeds away and thui con cealing his identity hits man and run away felix chrlstman thirty-elglit years old 807 south state street was probably fa tally injsred yesterday afternoon when an unidentified motorcyclist knocked him down at wabash avenue and peck court and then sped away so rapidly that on lookers conld not read his license number eight-hour bill passes senator borah wins long fight with bailey principal opponent washington may 81 senator borah of idaho to-day won hi long ai>d hard tight for the eight-hour work day bill when the senate passed the measure by the decisive rote of 45 to 11 the neg ative votes were cast by bradley dilling ham dupont gallinger heyburn oliver page root sanders and wetmore repub licans and percy democrat both in committee and on the floor of the senate the united btatei steel cor poration exerted tfce meet determined ef fort to best thia bill on the gronnd that it wonld interfere with contracts for tÂ«*l and other repplies for the gorernment in the manufacture of whieb this and other corporations hare a practical monopoly senator bailey led the opposition to the measure â€¢ . 4 blasts in san francisco mysterious dynamite explosions in downtown section san francisco may 31 two dyna mite explosions occurring almost simul taneously wrecked the poolroom an sa loon of ton corbett at fourth and tse tenson streett and the poolroom of dreyer brothers at fifth and tseresson streets at 10:40 o'clock to-night . so far as known no one was injured but some may have been burled in the wreckage the shock of the explosions could be plainly felt throughout the downtown district at 10:o7 a third explosion occurred appar ently in the downtown district at 11:25 a fourth explosion occurred on east street on the water iront ... ; princes to visit capital two members of german royalty to attend washington urfchÂ«oir , , : ,' washington may 81 two members of the german ror&l famllr prince henry of bouss and prince benry of hesse darmstadt with eighteen other officers of the german imperial fleet now at hampton ronds will be the guest o count bern gtorff german ambassador at luncheon fciikatliiugton wednesday one hundred â– ^ of fashionable washington so m^!?v been aiked t meet t"e ger â€¢ eve new argument in equal rights talk mrs joseprr t bowen says woman has not been for civen triumph over adam prf/.ohers are assailed â€” â€” \ last to be won to political equality says Chicago woman suffrage leader b cr joseph t bowen sho occupies much the same position in the ranks of the local suffragists as mrs o h p bel mont among those in new york gave her reasons yesterday with arguments that were bitterly sarcastic at times why women should vote she spoke oefore the cook county suffrage alliance in sinaf center 4600 grand boulevard paying her respects to clergymen for their lukewarmness toward th strug gle of women for the ballot mrs bowen said eve conquered adam and for that rea son theological consent to woman's suf frage has ever been withheld women never has been forgiven for the acts of the first mother of the race although women form the bulk of the congregations ministers of the gospel will be the last group as a whole to be won to the cause of political equality between the sexes some thrusts at male sex thrusts at the male sex in the pr.lpit and out were frequent in mrs bowen's address briefly tome were as follows if women could vote they would run the government better than the present voters seem able to do the present sit uation is unjust the present number of women in the united states who are asking for the vote is greater than any number of men who ever asked for anything in this coun try if men at a decrepit time of life j uncle joe cannon gladstone bismarck for example have been able to take an active part in the management of respon sible affairs of government then women of an average sgp bonlri Â»*â– leapt ltj capable of voting " of the graduates from onr high schools last year the girls numbered 479,000 and the boys only 898,000 robbed of achievement whenever the Chicago dab women start a philanthropy and make a success of it it is turned over to the country city or state and made a matter of politics " woman's lack of physical strength is made up by superior skill she has entered all except eight of the 308 occupations open to men other speakers were mtis virginia brooks of west hammond and mrs fran ces s porten a vassar keeps daisy chain students happy over retention of time-honored procession poughkeepbie n y may 31 vassar students are happy becaus it has been officially announced that the time honored daisy chain part of the vasÂ»ar college class day exercises will not be abandoned this year as wai expected because of toe many requests to continue the pretty and unique ceremonr the col lege authorities have decided to have the procession this year as usual class day will be observed june 11 the daisy chain procession will start at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and twenty-four of the prettiest girls in the sophomore class will bear the floral chain on the following day dk james monroe tayor president of the college win deliver the baccalaureate ser mon to tb graduates mrs vanderbilt swoons mrs w k jr collapses during per formance in new york theater new york may 81 mrs wiliam k vanderbilt jr who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis fainted dur ing the second act of the opera robin hood at the new amsterdam theater this evening she remained unconscious for about five minutes was revived in the women's roon and was then removed to her borne she was attended by a physi cian who was a member of her own party among others said to be in the party were mrs george crocker and mrs searles bridges clears see retracts his testimony won over by mildred evelyn arthur see the priest of the absolue life cult and his two priestesses mildred bridges top and mona rees father of cult prophetess makes affidavit denying story he told in court battling for the freedom of evelyn ar thur Â£â€¢â€¢, leader of the absolute life cult mildred bridges prophetess of the faith has succeeded in converting her father stephen h bridges and has ob tained from him an affidavit in which be states that every important statement he made in court in the case against see charging the abduction of miss bridges was false the affidavit comes at the opportune time when james hamilton lewis attorney for see is about to enter his bill of ex ceptions in the supreme court and will doubtless knock the state's ease against see ont of court mr b!>dges being the principal witness for the prosecution miss bridges was exultant last night as she gave an examiner reporter a copy of the affidavit girl is jubilant there she exclaimed joyously twitch ing her dark eyebrows with the art that only mddred bridges knows we will mr see from the penitentiary it has beed a long fight it has been a hard fight but father ijas now removed every objection to the absolute life faith in fact he has taken up his residence in the headquarters of the commonwealth here at 2641 racine a-venne evelyn arthur see's apparent joy in the new cast to the case was equally ap parent as awakened from bis sleep in a dark cell in the beehive of barred rooms in the jail last night he was told of the affidavit i knew that mr bridges was gradually coming to be a believer in the faith he said and i knew w the effort mildred was making to have him make hnnounoemrnt that ho had tnlil^hr iill>s kuz â€” â€” - building collapses 40 workers had just left is you lookin for me chirps boy believed lost in the debris the police and hie departments were called^-out to dig into hundreds of tons of debris which piled np at harrison street and st louis avenue last night when a three-story brick building collapsed for an hour the searchers dug frantically for the body of four-year-old heine cohen who was seen standing in the door of the building when it fell relief corps were just changing shifts when little heine dirty faced and happy peered around the corner of a pile of bricks and yelled is you loolrin for me the building was in the course of con struction it was being built by the owner m w turner 348 south dearborn street the walls had been completed and the roof was being placed forty masons and carpenters who are working on the building had just left for the day when the walls fell the entire rear wall buckled in and the second and third floors fell to the basement then the side walls top pled in the police have been unable to determine whether the building fell because of faulty construction or as a result of labor troubles paul benjamin is dead new york may 31 cable dispatches received to-day it the shubert offices an nouncpd the sudden death i<i liverpool of one of their most capable business man agers paul benjamin mr benjamin had just arrived iu the english city on his first was stricken witli an a(^|hs^hfeh b|^o!iia his i'tmiil i^s^sfl ibsÃŸt^aw j u.s must take control in cuba gomez a faild state department has 4 dence v - fl presei . oxl iner representative leal island buried in h 84,500,000 deh graft said to be rampaÃŸfi public works stopped m contractors are unpaÃŸ rebels gain strength dam by h h stansbury m special correspondent sent by the hearst neu)Â«pach cuba to investigate war conditions on the islt^t mr stansbury was a correspondent in cuba hew the spanish american war and kww^^t conditions on the island perfectlj^ffii^u is also well acquainted with all jh leading cuban officials special cable to the examiner "" mg "| may 31 actual conditions whi i \ ed washington authorities to rush jl j guantanamo and bring a fleet or nine^b s and more troops within striking dist^wh uncovered here to-day isbk the many protestations of prosperity and f^b ito crush the revolt issued by president j sr^^j gomez are revealed in a light that seems to > fl further delay on t he part of the nation obligÃŸ protect property and human life inexcusable wÃŸjjmjÃŸ facts which discredit claims of the gomez ah tration to be constructive in policy or even hone^b been in possession of the state department for fl additional evidence of this character in riocui^b form is new on the way to washington i%hfjc business is at an absolute standstill and pe^bii on all public improvements have ceased this b thousands upon thousands to choose between idlÃŸ akin to starvation and joining the revolutionary foÃŸa cuba's debt 84,500,000 tmbb the federal debt of cuba has been run up sln^fl inauguration of ouban independence to the b sum of 84,500,000 added to this are unproporÃŸ provincial and municipal debts graft is said b rampant in all departments of the governmentÃŸp addition large sums due contfactors on uncomÃŸ public improvements and funds from which to carlÃŸ an effective campaign are nowhere in sight bg these facts were obtained by the examiner fl spondent from sources that would be immediately nfl nized as authoritative if names could be used 9 likewise reflect opinions of butÃŸ men both foreign and native present millions in investnÃŸl ere s all business i._j .. o i i cadÃŸ pon the tranquillity of the islfl r success are a unit for intervene such aid from the united b^m will restore politioal peace feguard the treasury || generals estenoa and ironet m a of the revolution issued anotj oclsmatlon to-day announcing tfl le revolt of the negroes is not a rfl war but a conflict in which all i posed to the gomez faction an^fl vited to take part small bands from all parts island are reported t b,Â«f sel moving toward oriente the present operations private i^^r tell that the rebels are burning pillaging indiscriminately near v h tiago and san luis all offlcialÃŸ formation is refused at the pafl havana newspapers are denied^h use of the government telegraplihl rebels well armed w estenoz with a force of 4,000 i occupies an almost impregnable i tion on mount gloria made fail by garcia in 1595 when the ll withstood a flve-day attack fromÃŸi 000 spaniards the force withÃŸ tenoz is armed with new ifl jorgensen rifles and has a good i ply of ammunition according tjfl formation received by the lu^bffi states legation bh the number of men with ifl on mount gloria does not tnci^b bands of marauders that a h about the country applying i^t jm^n money with which tofl b dd armsfor re^j^^^h no 140 a m 2d page^^^^^lrmjj register in ddlpp onf tfnt dellm^hnh u s pitent office t-wni v~c,rn 1 30 ctn'^^^g sherry Â„.,...-â€¢â€¢ 80 shaalÂ»y , wo hoteyvaÃŸderwlt uglorf e x arts l.loo hotel martwaue .. 129 moqntÃŸ â€¢ uptown and how tohlje 18 downtown mo hotel ifarie antoin hoftrau hoo r e tt iowpurk atmtw hotÂ«l.l>a gnat northern .... 80 hotel majratio â€¢â– iv j hotel bucldnsham . . 7 1 tlerÂ»id square hotel 1m hotel manhattan . . lfti busunoby restau oalramt club 12i rant 80 those already deserted this morning with the number each emptoyad are hotel aÂ»tÂ«r 3501 waldorf astotia 860 hotel ftem 290 hotel brealin to houl st-reiis 160 hotel rector to hotel gotham 180 lonta martial rÂ»tÂ»ft hotel imperial 225 i n*_i^n:-Â«---k2 hotel prince georn so hotel bffllnoht vtb holland seas 75 elks ctub â€žâ€” . Â».Â«. tr hotel kdckerbcktor.2be4 9 s*j hov/en and cooler by night sunday * i b fair moderate southerly winds shlft r v j j /] ing'to westerly by saturday night â– :\. h t,j range of temperatures yeiterday i uri highest â€¢ 9 sb&qh m=l c " lowest _-<Â» ,' : be - average .- â€” â€”...... â€” .__--._. 71 frgguwlllllhlfrgg to every reader of the sunday examiner .. Â„ rt.un4.trip tickets m '. : 4v 'â€¢ on,-steamers 4r theodore roosevelt ariii t2ftit'i'd states good for afternoon and evening cruises tfuring july cut out the coupon in to-mor row's sunday examiner order your paper iuim^tote w the association of ame^h fflkffl tiaer ha n.minod and m sf/ffr the circulation of this pulh the figures of circulation contaiil association's report only arc ataociation of american ad^k no 2399 whitehall bldg ah

Chicago examiner Chicago june i 1912 16 pages saturday saturday unknown secretly unknown navy drive u.s unknown pacific , i : " big battleships beside ||| bch strongest in u s any other navy would i worse than useless means of 20,000 bo additional loan to bize control of the pacific wore canal is finished shisgton may 31 for the ex h purpose of increasing her navy to power that she will be ko drive the united states out of the beast before this country lg able to kl advantage of the panama canal aas just floated a secret loan of 800 * hvast sum is not included in the hooo appropriated by the japanese knent for a continuous programme of construction it is to be used in ad k to that appropriation for the con btion of dreadnoughts not mentioned in hprogramme but through which japan 3 to obtain preponderant power in the beast in addition japan is borrow krery dollar that she can induce money hfera to advance with the object of hur brng alonz the vessels not in the stocks vleyer has this information â– all this information obtained by the kttdnance department of the united tates navy is now in possession of secre ry meyer â– tt is the purpose of japan to obtain dom kation of the pacific by 1915 with thli r>ject in view she is confining her pro ected ships to the super-dreadnought â– uois four of these ships ar aow in the water three are on the way and a number of others are projected of the seven super-dreadnoughts now practically i ready tot service four are of the armored type with all the power of a and a peed of twenty knots entire united states navt not one the aggressive force nnd bipeed of this type of fighting craft bbf founfl k.vlargest would be useless belief wjas expressed today that wf face o ttls type of battles hi r the jsder typos of which the united states but and all other navies are almost ex hctastvely composed would be not only use lless but in the way during any battle of htlie future i according tr the official bulletin issued bmt the navy department the united states i bow posses six dreadnaugbts but will be â– speedily outdistajÂ»d hard tight for the eight-hour work day bill when the senate passed the measure by the decisive rote of 45 to 11 the neg ative votes were cast by bradley dilling ham dupont gallinger heyburn oliver page root sanders and wetmore repub licans and percy democrat both in committee and on the floor of the senate the united btatei steel cor poration exerted tfce meet determined ef fort to best thia bill on the gronnd that it wonld interfere with contracts for tÂ«*l and other repplies for the gorernment in the manufacture of whieb this and other corporations hare a practical monopoly senator bailey led the opposition to the measure â€¢ . 4 blasts in san francisco mysterious dynamite explosions in downtown section san francisco may 31 two dyna mite explosions occurring almost simul taneously wrecked the poolroom an sa loon of ton corbett at fourth and tse tenson streett and the poolroom of dreyer brothers at fifth and tseresson streets at 10:40 o'clock to-night . so far as known no one was injured but some may have been burled in the wreckage the shock of the explosions could be plainly felt throughout the downtown district at 10:o7 a third explosion occurred appar ently in the downtown district at 11:25 a fourth explosion occurred on east street on the water iront ... ; princes to visit capital two members of german royalty to attend washington urfchÂ«oir , , : ,' washington may 81 two members of the german ror&l famllr prince henry of bouss and prince benry of hesse darmstadt with eighteen other officers of the german imperial fleet now at hampton ronds will be the guest o count bern gtorff german ambassador at luncheon fciikatliiugton wednesday one hundred â– ^ of fashionable washington so m^!?v been aiked t meet t"e ger â€¢ eve new argument in equal rights talk mrs joseprr t bowen says woman has not been for civen triumph over adam prf/.ohers are assailed â€” â€” \ last to be won to political equality says Chicago woman suffrage leader b cr joseph t bowen sho occupies much the same position in the ranks of the local suffragists as mrs o h p bel mont among those in new york gave her reasons yesterday with arguments that were bitterly sarcastic at times why women should vote she spoke oefore the cook county suffrage alliance in sinaf center 4600 grand boulevard paying her respects to clergymen for their lukewarmness toward th strug gle of women for the ballot mrs bowen said eve conquered adam and for that rea son theological consent to woman's suf frage has ever been withheld women never has been forgiven for the acts of the first mother of the race although women form the bulk of the congregations ministers of the gospel will be the last group as a whole to be won to the cause of political equality between the sexes some thrusts at male sex thrusts at the male sex in the pr.lpit and out were frequent in mrs bowen's address briefly tome were as follows if women could vote they would run the government better than the present voters seem able to do the present sit uation is unjust the present number of women in the united states who are asking for the vote is greater than any number of men who ever asked for anything in this coun try if men at a decrepit time of life j uncle joe cannon gladstone bismarck for example have been able to take an active part in the management of respon sible affairs of government then women of an average sgp bonlri Â»*â– leapt ltj capable of voting " of the graduates from onr high schools last year the girls numbered 479,000 and the boys only 898,000 robbed of achievement whenever the Chicago dab women start a philanthropy and make a success of it it is turned over to the country city or state and made a matter of politics " woman's lack of physical strength is made up by superior skill she has entered all except eight of the 308 occupations open to men other speakers were mtis virginia brooks of west hammond and mrs fran ces s porten a vassar keeps daisy chain students happy over retention of time-honored procession poughkeepbie n y may 31 vassar students are happy becaus it has been officially announced that the time honored daisy chain part of the vasÂ»ar college class day exercises will not be abandoned this year as wai expected because of toe many requests to continue the pretty and unique ceremonr the col lege authorities have decided to have the procession this year as usual class day will be observed june 11 the daisy chain procession will start at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and twenty-four of the prettiest girls in the sophomore class will bear the floral chain on the following day dk james monroe tayor president of the college win deliver the baccalaureate ser mon to tb graduates mrs vanderbilt swoons mrs w k jr collapses during per formance in new york theater new york may 81 mrs wiliam k vanderbilt jr who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis fainted dur ing the second act of the opera robin hood at the new amsterdam theater this evening she remained unconscious for about five minutes was revived in the women's roon and was then removed to her borne she was attended by a physi cian who was a member of her own party among others said to be in the party were mrs george crocker and mrs searles bridges clears see retracts his testimony won over by mildred evelyn arthur see the priest of the absolue life cult and his two priestesses mildred bridges top and mona rees father of cult prophetess makes affidavit denying story he told in court battling for the freedom of evelyn ar thur Â£â€¢â€¢, leader of the absolute life cult mildred bridges prophetess of the faith has succeeded in converting her father stephen h bridges and has ob tained from him an affidavit in which be states that every important statement he made in court in the case against see charging the abduction of miss bridges was false the affidavit comes at the opportune time when james hamilton lewis attorney for see is about to enter his bill of ex ceptions in the supreme court and will doubtless knock the state's ease against see ont of court mr b!>dges being the principal witness for the prosecution miss bridges was exultant last night as she gave an examiner reporter a copy of the affidavit girl is jubilant there she exclaimed joyously twitch ing her dark eyebrows with the art that only mddred bridges knows we will mr see from the penitentiary it has beed a long fight it has been a hard fight but father ijas now removed every objection to the absolute life faith in fact he has taken up his residence in the headquarters of the commonwealth here at 2641 racine a-venne evelyn arthur see's apparent joy in the new cast to the case was equally ap parent as awakened from bis sleep in a dark cell in the beehive of barred rooms in the jail last night he was told of the affidavit i knew that mr bridges was gradually coming to be a believer in the faith he said and i knew w the effort mildred was making to have him make hnnounoemrnt that ho had tnlil^hr iill>s kuz â€” â€” - building collapses 40 workers had just left is you lookin for me chirps boy believed lost in the debris the police and hie departments were called^-out to dig into hundreds of tons of debris which piled np at harrison street and st louis avenue last night when a three-story brick building collapsed for an hour the searchers dug frantically for the body of four-year-old heine cohen who was seen standing in the door of the building when it fell relief corps were just changing shifts when little heine dirty faced and happy peered around the corner of a pile of bricks and yelled is you loolrin for me the building was in the course of con struction it was being built by the owner m w turner 348 south dearborn street the walls had been completed and the roof was being placed forty masons and carpenters who are working on the building had just left for the day when the walls fell the entire rear wall buckled in and the second and third floors fell to the basement then the side walls top pled in the police have been unable to determine whether the building fell because of faulty construction or as a result of labor troubles paul benjamin is dead new york may 31 cable dispatches received to-day it the shubert offices an nouncpd the sudden death i fl further delay on t he part of the nation obligÃŸ protect property and human life inexcusable wÃŸjjmjÃŸ facts which discredit claims of the gomez ah tration to be constructive in policy or even hone^b been in possession of the state department for fl additional evidence of this character in riocui^b form is new on the way to washington i%hfjc business is at an absolute standstill and pe^bii on all public improvements have ceased this b thousands upon thousands to choose between idlÃŸ akin to starvation and joining the revolutionary foÃŸa cuba's debt 84,500,000 tmbb the federal debt of cuba has been run up sln^fl inauguration of ouban independence to the b sum of 84,500,000 added to this are unproporÃŸ provincial and municipal debts graft is said b rampant in all departments of the governmentÃŸp addition large sums due contfactors on uncomÃŸ public improvements and funds from which to carlÃŸ an effective campaign are nowhere in sight bg these facts were obtained by the examiner fl spondent from sources that would be immediately nfl nized as authoritative if names could be used 9 likewise reflect opinions of butÃŸ men both foreign and native present millions in investnÃŸl ere s all business i._j .. o i i cadÃŸ pon the tranquillity of the islfl r success are a unit for intervene such aid from the united b^m will restore politioal peace feguard the treasury || generals estenoa and ironet m a of the revolution issued anotj oclsmatlon to-day announcing tfl le revolt of the negroes is not a rfl war but a conflict in which all i posed to the gomez faction an^fl vited to take part small bands from all parts island are reported t b,Â«f sel moving toward oriente the present operations private i^^r tell that the rebels are burning pillaging indiscriminately near v h tiago and san luis all offlcialÃŸ formation is refused at the pafl havana newspapers are denied^h use of the government telegraplihl rebels well armed w estenoz with a force of 4,000 i occupies an almost impregnable i tion on mount gloria made fail by garcia in 1595 when the ll withstood a flve-day attack fromÃŸi 000 spaniards the force withÃŸ tenoz is armed with new ifl jorgensen rifles and has a good i ply of ammunition according tjfl formation received by the lu^bffi states legation bh the number of men with ifl on mount gloria does not tnci^b bands of marauders that a h about the country applying i^t jm^n money with which tofl b dd armsfor re^j^^^h no 140 a m 2d page^^^^^lrmjj register in ddlpp onf tfnt dellm^hnh u s pitent office t-wni v~c,rn 1 30 ctn'^^^g sherry Â„.,...-â€¢â€¢ 80 shaalÂ»y , wo hoteyvaÃŸderwlt uglorf e x arts l.loo hotel martwaue .. 129 moqntÃŸ â€¢ uptown and how tohlje 18 downtown mo hotel ifarie antoin hoftrau hoo r e tt iowpurk atmtw hotÂ«l.l>a gnat northern .... 80 hotel majratio â€¢â– iv j hotel bucldnsham . . 7 1 tlerÂ»id square hotel 1m hotel manhattan . . lfti busunoby restau oalramt club 12i rant 80 those already deserted this morning with the number each emptoyad are hotel aÂ»tÂ«r 3501 waldorf astotia 860 hotel ftem 290 hotel brealin to houl st-reiis 160 hotel rector to hotel gotham 180 lonta martial rÂ»tÂ»ft hotel imperial 225 i n*_i^n:-Â«---k2 hotel prince georn so hotel bffllnoht vtb holland seas 75 elks ctub â€žâ€” . Â».Â«. tr hotel kdckerbcktor.2be4 9 s*j hov/en and cooler by night sunday * i b fair moderate southerly winds shlft r v j j /] ing'to westerly by saturday night â– :\. h t,j range of temperatures yeiterday i uri highest â€¢ 9 sb&qh m=l c " lowest _-